ATTACK SUB Q & A (8/6/91)
(source: Consimworld Attack Sub folder, posts #14 and 44; Q&A and errata
from AH tournaments)
3.2D ERRATA Add: "However, only one Ship may react to each Active Sonar
or Sub attack card played."
3.4 Could a player who plays no cards, but does take a legal action such
as a repair attempt by drawing a RN, avoid having to discard?
A. Yes.
3.6 Can the Battle Stations card be used for two attacks against
different ships? May two separate attacks be made against one target if
the total is less than or equal to the contact status? May two separate
attacks be made against two targets if each satisfies its own
requirements?
A. No. 6.3 prevails. Separate attacks would be considered identical
actions. No. No.
3.6/8.2 Does Battle Stations allow a surface ship to conduct an action
on the same turn that a Close/Open Range card is played for its side?
May two different types of CR cards (such as Thermal Layer and Silent
Running ) be played with a BS card? ... even as a Reactive play to a
black card (3.2)?
A. Yes, Yes, Yes.
4.21 If a sub uses Active Sonar to search for two ships, can both ships
play a Passive Sonar to raise their Contact Level on the sub twice?
A. No. Only one ship may react with a Passive Sonar to each Active Sonar
played.
4.3 If due to malfunction, it is impossible for a ship's sonar to
increase contact with its target (e.g., sensor at -1 vs detect value of
7), can a Passive Sonar be played anyway just to get it out of the hand?
A. No.
5.3 ERRATA: Delete the word "red".
5.5 Can a sub in Systems Shutdown invoke it again to reduce contact
after further attacks? Can a "playing dead" sub use an "A/PS" card as a
Passive Sonar?
A. No. A sub in Systems Shutdown has lost its freedom of action. It
cannot take any action other than Contact Reduction and Passive Sonar
until it draws a RN>3. Then it must decide whether it will reduce
contact one level or regain its freedom of action. An "A/PS" card is
considered a Passive Sonar card when played as such.
6.4 ERRATA: The example is wrong. Passive sonar cannot be used against
surface attacks.
6.8 If a surface ship that is attacked plays Passive Sonar in response,
but is destroyed by that attack, does its side still gain a contact
level on the attacker?
A. Yes. Note the surface ship would have had to play the Passive Sonar
in response to the attack before the attack was resolved.
8.1/13.5 May the play of an Open Range card to disengage occur even if
the ship has no contacts on any opposing ship? Does an Open Range card
used to disengage apply only to a single surface ship; i.e. it is not
shared?
A. Once an opposing ship has been sunk by a vessel, that vessel need not
have a contact to play an Open Range card. Open Range cards are shared
by all surface ships except in the case of Scenario Special Rules such
as those of 13K where a capital ship is allowed to escape alone.
Generally, for one surface ship to escape, all must turn away from the
enemy with that Move card.
8.4 Does the playing of a Close/Open Range card increase the contact
level of all surface ships even when there was currently no contact
against some of them?
A. Yes.
9.3 Do subs and lone surface ships have their contact status lowered by
subsequent malfunctions of attack systems?
A. No. Attack malfunctions do not have this effect.
10.31 If play of a C/OR card is negated by a reactive play (8.5), is a
helicopter check still required?
A. Yes.
10.31/11.1 Is play of a Close Range card to attempt reinforcement entry
considered played on a surface force such that a helicopter check is
required?
A. No.
13C Must Soviet Subs currently hold contact level 1 to disengage or must
they just have achieved it at some prior point? Can NATO win this
scenario by destroying one sub and disengaging?
A. The latter - no ship can disengage while currently at Contact Level
1. No. Any scenario with specific stated victory conditions cannot be
won by 13.5.
13E Must the play of the Open Range card not be negated as in 13H? Does
the Open Range card function in every way as a normal play of such a
card? May the Open Range card be played even if no enemy ships are
currently detected?
A. No. Yes. In this scenario, once play has entered the second deck Open
Range cards may be played without respect to enemy contact. However,
enemy contact can never be reduced to less than "No Contact". The same
logic applies to 13H.